“KIA-ORA.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 26 June 1913, Page 21

“KIA-ORA.”

THE NEW ZEALAND REVUE.

Mr. Edward Elliott has now completed the script of the New Zealand Revue, and the “Smart Set” have the same in rehearsal for production at the Town Hall on Wednesday next, it can best be described as a futurist’s view of the country. All the political and social questions, all the plays, musical comedies, even down to the present pantomime, have been

mixed up and will be served out in such a way that the Revue promises to be one long laugh from beginning to end. The latest “Turkey Trot dances will be represented by “The Queen Street Trot,” “The Symonds Street Slide,” “The Wanganui Wobble’ and “The Last Tram Rush.” Oscar Asche will be seen engaged in removing the tram lines, in which scene we are promised a huge earthquake effect caused by the “Monk-ey Woman.” The Birkenhead Ferry is rebuilt into the H.M.S. “New Zealand,” and the Governor-General opens the Auckland Exhibition before it is built, which causes H. B. Irving to go into pantomime and sing rag-time.

Everything is put right by the police taking over the management of the traffic. Hundreds of other extraordinary complications occur which should go towards making the first New Zealand revue as big a success as the other colonial revues have been that Mr. Edward Elliott has written and produced with the “Smart Set.”

As the motto of the City of Auckland seems to be “Keep your city clean,” the motto of Mr. Elliott’s revue, “Kia-Ora,” will be “Keep the city laughing.”